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No. 484,316. Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

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JOHN H. BROVVNLOV AND JOEL S. WARNER, OF OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK.

TRUSS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,316, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed March 27, 1890. Serial No. 345,540. (No model.)

.To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN H. BROWNLOW Y and J OEL S. VARNER, of Ogdensburg, in the county of St. Lawrence, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Truss, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improved truss, and has for its object to so improve the construction of the same that the tissues adjacent to the inguinal canal and rings will be compressed from both sides; and a further object of the invention is to provide a truss possessing superior qualities for the purposes intended and capable of securin g the greatest ease andcomfort to the wearer.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

vReference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar iigures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views. Y

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the truss. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the central adjustable and the bi-lateral compression-pads. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig.2; and Figt is a longitudinal section through the buckle.

The band or belt 10 may be made of any desired width and of any suitable materialfor instance, webbing or leather-and the ends of the belt are connected by a buckle A. A slide 11 is located upon the belt at a suitable point, and integral with the 4inner face of the slide, at its center, a horizontal threaded post 12 is formed. The said post, however, may be attached to the slide in any approved manner, if so desired. This post is adapted to sustain a round compression-pad 13, the inner or bearing face a whereof is cork, and the rear face consists of a metal plate a', provided with a threaded opening to receive the stud. By reason of this construction the pad may be adj usted any desired distance to or from the slide.

At each side of the central pad 13 another pad is located, designated, respectively, as 14 and 15. The side pads 14 and 15, which are also compression-pads, are oval or kidneyshaped in general contour, and their inner or bearing surfaces l) are inclined upon a curved line from the endsand outer side edges'to the central portion of the inner edge.

The construction of the side pads is similar to that of the central pad in so far as their inner or bearing faces are made of cork, and

the bottom or outer faces b consist of a metal face of the belt, and is provided with top and bottom ears 18 and pins 19 located at intervals between the ears. A locking-plate 2O is pivoted in the ears 18, provided with an inturned lower edge or iiange 21 immediately below the pivotal point, and apertures 22 to receive the pins 19.

The end of the belt to be passed through the buckle is provided Witha series of apertures 23. In process of buckling the lockingplate is carried at a right angle to the baseplate. The apertured end of the belt is then passed beneath the flange of the locking-plate a proper distance to tighten the belt around the body, and the pins 19 are made to enter the most convenient apertures 23. The locking-plate is then closed upon the belt, and the frictional contact of the flange 2O upon the belt retains the locking-plate in its closed or locked position and the two ends of the belt rmly in contact.

The belt is lined with any soft material,- and the usual strap D is secured at one end to the belt at one side.. The other end, which is provided with an elastic section 24 and an apertured tip 25, is attached to the slide by the adjustable engagement of the tip with the stud 16 of the slide, as shown in Fig. 1.

Instead of cork being used for the contact faces of the compression-pads, vulcanized rubber, celluloid, or other suitable material may be employed, but cork is preferred; and the inner or contact surfaces of the pads may be ICO corrugated instead of plain, if in practice it is found advantageous.

The two lateral hinged compression-pads are designed to compress from both sides of the inguinal canal and rings the tissues adjacent thereto, and to occlude the canal and rings with the natural surrounding tissues and retain them in position by the combined action of the bi-lateral compression-pads and the independently-adjustable center pad.

IIaving thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a truss, a slide provided with a center adjustable compression-pad and an independent bi-lateral compression-pad hinged at each side of the center pad, substantially as shown aud described.

2. In a truss, the combination, with a plate 2o adapted for attachment to a belt, of a post secured to the plate, a center compressionpad adj ustably secured upon the post, and an independent bi-lateral compression-pad higed to the plate at each side of the center pad, substantially as described.

3. In a truss,the combination, with a slide adapted for attachment to a belt and provided upon one face with athreaded post, of a circular compressionpad provided with a threaded opening to receive the said post, and two essentially kidneyshaped compression-pads hinged to the slide, one at each side of the center pad, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN II. BROWNLOW. JOEL S. WARNER. Witnesses:

W. H. GODDEN, 1I. M. WATERMAN. 

